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The $270 Mn investment implies a post-money valuation of about $1.35 Bn, adding the Indonesian retail investment platform to a regional strategy that increasingly spans digital assets, tokenised securities and settlement infrastructure.

The logistics provider expects the hub to generate up to 150 high-value tech roles, wiring Malaysia into a 24-hour network alongside Chicago, Krakow and Lisbon.

The parent company is making another attempt to list its Indian business. But it is not selling any of its own shares in the all-primary offering, with INR 3,000 Cr of net proceeds designated for debt repayment.

Singapore’s fileAI said the undisclosed investment will fund a Japan build-out and a financial services push, extending a string of corporate venture bets on the infrastructure needed to put AI into business workflows.

Singapore's Cocoon Capital and Martin Krupp co-led the pre-Series A round, which will fund manufacturing and regulatory expansion as Bioactiv Matrix awaits approval in its home market.

Singapore's 1982 Ventures said it participated in the Series B financing as Higgsfield's valuation has more than quadrupled since January, giving the fund manager a global AI deal within its enterprise AI and fintech mandate.

The city-state has submitted a jurisdiction model and offered a dedicated facility for a permanent forum, although its headquarters and powers remain unsettled.

The acquisition will lift the US-based provider’s Philippine workforce above 2,000 and add Cagayan de Oro to its Manila and Cebu delivery network, while bringing clients from fintech, healthcare and SaaS.

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The Indian IT giant will take over the 4,500-person automotive consultancy as Porsche moves from owner to anchor client under a five-year services commitment spanning manufacturing, engineering and software-defined mobility.

The bank expects growth to accelerate to 11% next year, four percentage points above the Asian Development Bank’s projection and closer to Hanoi’s own double-digit ambitions

The Indonesian e-commerce enabler is exporting a performance-linked model into Southeast Asia's fastest-growing platform market, where rising marketplace costs are shifting the contest from GMV to profitable growth.

The chipmaker estimates Vietnam has just 10,000–15,000 GPUs and is urging Hanoi to build national-scale computing capacity, exposing the infrastructure gap behind the country’s push for sovereign AI.

E&E products generated about three-fifths of the increase in both exports and imports, pointing to a production chain upswing rather than export demand alone.

The roundtable produced a food safety agreement and a telecom regulation LOI, alongside fresh discussions on semiconductor supplier entry, capital market links and aviation connectivity, as New Delhi presses ahead with a $13.3 Bn chip push.

The proposed Investment Management Track could allow performance-linked returns to count in ONE Pass salary assessments. A planned companion tax exemption and an MAS investment programme aim to anchor senior investors, capital-allocation decisions and high-value jobs as Hong Kong sharpens its own incentives.

The Thai restaurant group will own the Korean fried-chicken brand outside the Americas while Serruya Private Equity will take the Western Hemisphere, extending Minor’s operator-to-owner playbook.

The anti-graft agency wants to link civil registration, immigration, hospital and banking records after investigations exposed how genuine state-issued IDs built on false information can slip through conventional checks.

Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore's minister of foreign affairs, and S. Jaishankar, India's minister of external affairs, laid the foundation stone for India’s new chancery in Singapore today. A day later, ministers and business leaders will turn to the harder task of advancing co-operation across investment, advanced manufacturing, digitalisation and connectivity.

The gaming exit is not simply another non-core disposal or a way to fund AI. It shows how Alibaba’s capital-intensive AI and cloud push is tightening the test for which businesses it still needs to own.

Starlink's Vietnamese order book has opened under a regulatory exception that gives SpaceX full ownership but leaves Hanoi in control of scale, coverage and duration.

The Malaysian state is pushing beyond semiconductor manufacturing into chip design and homegrown IP under an ambitious 2040 strategy.

The 20-unit prototype at NUS Medicine puts living human neurons alongside silicon inside a server rack. The bigger test is whether a technology born in the laboratory can become reliable, scalable data-centre infrastructure.

The AI start-up is regaining corporate independence from Meta, but its experience shows how national security rules are narrowing the commercial choices of technology companies caught between the US, China and others.

The agreement now covers Mercosur’s largest economy, where trade with Singapore reached $10.7 Bn in 2025, as the South American bloc widens its commercial links with Asia.

A public listing will test whether Nvidia's ecosystem funding is a genuine value creator or a circular financing loop.

The country is pushing connectivity beyond urban broadband expansion to transform its remote frontier regions into digital public-service and commerce hubs.

Between venture-backed startups and platform-based gig work lies a less visible part of Asia’s economy: people building small, flexible businesses through products, services, skills and personal relationships.

The Labuan-headquartered advisory firm will use its KL Eco City office to serve clients across Asia as Malaysia targets RM2 Bn in assets under its Forest City family-office scheme by end-2026.

Net profit fell to S$818 Mn from S$2.88 Bn as last year's exceptional gains dropped out. Underlying profit rose 21% to S$831 Mn, but Singapore's domestic business remained under pressure.